John Goodman Targets Bad Robot’s Valencia

John Goodman is in talks for a leading role in Dan Trachtenberg’s upcoming microbudget thriller, Valencia, Variety reports.

Valencia was originally scripted by Josh Campbell and Matt Steucken with Dan Casey having recently provided a rewrite. It follows a girl who, after losing consciousness in a car accident, wakes up in an underground cellar with a man who tells her that the outside world has perished in a nuclear attack. Goodman will play that man.

Trachtenberg, best known for his short fan film Portal: No Escape, was also named last year as the director of New Line’s planned adaptation of Brian K. Vaughn and Pia Guerra’s acclaimed comic book series Y: The Last Man. That project has not, as of yet, shown any quantifiable progress with Vaughn having recently suggested that there’s a very good chance the rights will ultimately revert back to him and Guerra.

Valencia plans to shoot this fall with Bad Robot and Paramount Insurge producing.